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It has free wi-fi, tablets for customers to access internet banking and a large digital screen showing local community news, weather and banking services.

Upstairs, the branch has a dedicated floor of space for customers to speak to staff away from the main banking hall, with spaces named after famous Birmingham figures including Cadbury, Chamberlain and Watt.

Birmingham's other city centre branch, in The Priory Queensway, will remain open while the Long Acre branch closed in November, with staff shifting to nearby Saltley following a refurbishment.

TSB can trace its presence in Birmingham back more than 100 years with the launch of Britain's first municipal savings bank in the city in September 1916 which later became part of TSB.